Sector Cache Design and Performance
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The IBM 360/85, possibly the rst commercially available CPU with a cache memory, used a cache with a sector design, by which the cache consisted of sectors (with address tags) and subsectors (or blocks, with valid bits). It rapidly became clear that superior performance could be obtained with the now familiar set{associative cache design. Because of changes in technology, the time has come to revisit the design of sector
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